Category Archives: Battles: Peninsula Campaign

The Conscription Act

On April 16, 1862, the Confederate Congress in Richmond passed the first of three conscription acts. It called most white men between ages eighteen and thirty-five to military service for three years. Later amendments created exceptions, including the owners of … Continue reading

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The Warwick-Yorktown Defense Line

The 13th’s camp near Lee’s Mill was near the site of an April 4 collision between less than 2,000 Confederates under Gen. Lafayette McLaws and Brig. Gen. William F. “Baldy” Smith’s much larger division in the vanguard of the Union’s … Continue reading

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